Chapter 7: Into the City

The next morning, Roger got up from the bed, the first thing he had to do was to check if there was any change after yesterday's efforts, but after checking it, he smiled bitterly, he felt that he was the same as before, there was no obvious change. The pen www.biquge.info or one thing that has changed, that is, he is very hungry now, and this has not happened when he gets out of bed before.

"The consumption of this cultivation method is too amazing, I have some doubts that I will tire myself to death?" Roger laughed. However, he knew that it was impossible, at least Xiao Ke could rely on it to cultivate successfully, why couldn't he be?

With such a kind of self-confidence, it is impossible for Roger to give up cultivation, there is a dedication to cultivating immortals in his bones, and it is that kind of attachment that takes him step by step towards the path of cultivating immortals, and he doesn't even realize it.

After lamenting yesterday's cultivation, Roger walked out of the room. He was the only one in the empty backyard, and a gust of wind blew, which made Roger feel a little cool, but the weather in June can only make people cool in the morning.

For this breeze blowing, Roger felt very comfortable. He picked up the basin, scooped a basin of water from the tank, and placed it in front of him.

Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale...... At the perfect moment, Roger took a deep breath, buried his head in the basin of water, and began to time.

Time passed, Roger's face became redder and redder, and even showed signs of struggling slightly, but Roger was not going to give up, he knew that it was just the beginning.

Gollum...... The bubbles kept coming out of the water, faster and faster, until by the time there were no bubbles at all, Roger's face was already flushed.

"Hold on!" Roger didn't want to give up, and he stayed in the water for a while, only to lift his head out when he couldn't hold on any longer.

The moment his head was raised out of the water, he jumped for joy, and he felt that he was holding his breath a little longer, although it was only ten breaths, he still felt it.

"My ability to hold my breath underwater has actually become stronger again!" he was very excited, he had always thought that he had reached the limit, but now that he has improved a little, how can he not be happy?

However, in order to verify whether his underwater breath-holding ability has become stronger, he scooped up a basin of water again and continued to hold his breath to verify the feeling just now. Just like just now, this time I held it to the limit.

"It's really ten more breaths than before!" this time, he was so sure that he clenched his fists in joy and shouted.

But then, a voice came from upstairs: "Still don't let people sleep?"

Roger was very embarrassed, he didn't expect to disturb the guests upstairs. Fortunately, there was no movement other than this sound.

Roger entered the store, picked up the broom and started the day's cleaning, he was now very sure that his breath-holding ability had become stronger because of the so-called foundation building method.

This made him more and more confident in himself, and he was very sure that his cultivation method was right. From then on, every day in addition to work, he would sit down quietly and continue to cultivate, with a charm of not being crazy or not becoming a demon.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed. In the past month, in addition to work and normal rest, Roger has been immersed in cultivation almost whenever he has time. It's just that what he didn't expect was that there was no change in any place except for the longer breath-holding time, and even when the breath-holding ability became fifty breaths longer than before, there was no further progress.

He had been troubled and couldn't understand why it didn't work. He even studied the book "Hundred Days of Building the Foundation Mind" hundreds of times, and studied it thoroughly, but he still couldn't find the problem.

He studied that peculiar cultivation method even more thoroughly, it was exactly the same as the method in the book, there was no difference at all, and after persisting for a month, he also changed from the initial fifty breaths to five hundred breaths now, and the time for each cultivation was ten times more.

"Is it because of the problem of aura?" mentioned in the book, the distribution of aura between heaven and earth is uneven, some places have more aura, some places have less aura, the most important thing in the foundation building realm is to absorb the aura, therefore, in a place with high aura content, it will get twice the result with half the effort, and if you cultivate in a place with low aura content, you will not even be able to enter the foundation building realm for a lifetime.

However, after countless thousands of years of development in the mortal realm, all the places with high aura content have long been occupied by the major cultivation sects and become the location of their own sects. The high content of spiritual energy often means that there will be spiritual veins nearby, and spiritual veins are the foundation of a sect.

Of course, it's not that you can't survive without joining any sect's casual cultivation, in addition to cultivating in places with high aura content, there are also spiritual stones that can also provide spiritual energy, making cultivation twice as effective with half the effort. The higher the quality of the spirit stone, the higher the content of the spiritual energy in it, and the more precious its price is.

Xiao Ke recorded in his notebook that their sect would issue a certain amount of lower grade spirit stones to the outer disciples every month, but he used them to exchange for runes, and he didn't keep any of them.

"You'd better keep a few!" Roger was depressed, he felt that Xiao Ke should keep a few just in case, so that he could have the spirit stones. For Roger, who had not made progress in his cultivation for half a month, he wanted to experience the feeling of using a spirit stone.

However, Roger didn't think that Xiao Ke's talent was good in the sect, plus he had been cultivating in the sect, and it took another month to successfully enter the foundation building realm, and now that Roger had only been cultivating for a month, he wanted to enter the foundation building realm, which was a bit whimsical.

At noon on this day, several county officials came to the inn and named them to find the shopkeeper, Sun Chengxuan walked out of the counter, clasped his hands into fists, and said respectfully:

"A few officials, what is the important thing to come to the shop?" After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the empty seats, meaning to invite them to sit down and talk. It is an eternal truth that those who do business must not mess with officials.

"The shopkeeper is polite!" one of the officials said, "Our brother is just here to pass on a message!" With that, he handed the invitation card in his hand to Sun Chengxuan.

"Our county magistrate has just taken office, and he wants to invite the local squire to drink together, and ask the shopkeeper to give him a face!" the official spoke, he looked at Sun Chengxuan, wanting to get Sun Chengxuan's reply.

Seeing this, Sun Chengxuan immediately said: "It must be!"

After getting Sun Chengxuan's reply, several officials no longer bothered Sun Chengxuan, but turned around and went back.

Sun Chengxuan opened the invitation card, saw the content inside, showed a depressed look on his face, and said with a smile: "This county order is too ......."

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The time of the banquet is in the evening, mainly to say that the county magistrate has just taken office and wants to get to know the local squires, so a banquet is set up tonight to feast all the squires in Kangling City. The invitation said that he could bring an entourage, and Sun Chengxuan thought of Roger. He called Roger and told him what had happened, and asked him if he would go along.

Roger wanted to refuse, he still had to practice at night, but after thinking about it, his cultivation had made no progress, and there was no result in a short period of time, and he was not in a hurry at this time, so he agreed to Sun Chengxuan.

Cultivation is not in a hurry, this is the truth he has recently come to the truth, the more anxious he is, the more he will not be fruitful, which is why every cultivator is required to relax his body before he can cultivate.

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After everything was done, it was almost evening. Sun Chengxuan found Lu Xingwang and handed over the inn to him, and then took Luo Huang to send it. He took out ten catties of fruit wine from the cellar and asked Roger to take it and present it to the county order.

That fruit wine is not ordinary, it was made when he was young, he was reluctant to drink it, he treasured it for decades, and now, it can be regarded as the best wine. Fruit wine is not sold, it is reserved for oneself to drink, and if you don't encounter the New Year's holiday, you will not be willing to take it out.

The precious Roger of the fruit wine knows, Sun Chengxuan took out ten catties at once, which surprised Roger, he knew that the shopkeeper had made a big decision.

It's still early, they are not in a hurry, and slowly walk towards the county seat, rather than walking, it is better to describe it as walking.

On the way, Roger asked curiously, "Shopkeeper, do you know what kind of person the county magistrate is?"

Sun Chengxuan shook his head, this county order has just taken office, how can he understand? However, as soon as he took office, he gave a banquet to all the local squires, and Sun Chengxuan could guess the person of the county order even if he guessed, but he would not talk nonsense about things without real evidence.

As they spoke, they came to the county seat. An old man and a young man looked at the endless city wall and sighed, Sun Chengxuan was lamented by the grandeur of the city wall, while Roger was lamented by how much money it would cost to build this city wall?

The streets of the city are lined with shops, and the noisy hawkers on the street have a different flavor. The afterglow of the setting sun faintly sprinkled on the red bricks and green tiles or the brightly colored pavilion cornices, adding a bit of hazy and poetic to the evening scene of the prosperous Kangling City in front of you.

This is Kangling City, where Roger grew up. His parents died when he was young, leaving him alone and the dilapidated small room, but not long after, the dilapidated small room was robbed by hooligans, and in order to survive as a child, he had no choice but to come to Kangling City to beg.

It wasn't until three years ago that Sun Chengxuan, who entered the city, saw him and took him to the Fulai Inn, so he has the current one. Kang Ling City carries his endless memories, and even he can clearly remember the street corners where he slept clearly. Yes, how can you forget? After all, it was his childhood.

After going to the Fulai Inn, he never entered the city, at most he went to the market to buy, the market was not in the city, but in a place outside the city where people from the countryside traded.

"Did it trigger your memories?" Sun Chengxuan asked, after all, he knew Roger's past, and he also knew that the darkest corner of the bustling city was once Roger's home.

Roger shook his head and said, "There's nothing to recall!" After that, he forcibly held back the tears that were about to flow out and didn't let Sun Chengxuan see them, after all, in front of his relatives, he couldn't shed tears.

That's right, Sun Chengxuan is his relative, a relative who is not related by blood.